I recently applied for a travel guide/program manager job in my home country of Switzerland. While I didn't get the job, I did get the most polite and friendly rejection letter ever. I think I may just move to Switzerland and look for work there so I can get better rejection letters.

In contrast, I apply for things here, interview, but then never hear from them again. I'm building up quite a shit list of companies I'll never deal with. Bastards.

I may just go back to Switzerland and raise sheep. I was thinking about raising goats, but I'd rather not kill them. So sheep it is. No terrorism or shooting or explosive Fed-Ex trucks in the Swiss Alps.

I just got home from work. It was a quiet evening, and thankfully none of the customers had me worrying about the state of humanity. We get some beautiful ones... people with great "character " and "personality" (meaning: punk-ass biyatches).

I had some time a few days ago and wrote a list. I happen to like writing these...sometimes people have been known to laugh. Not quite sure if it's for pity... :).

Topic: Why should we cancel December?

• We already have 11 perfectly good months. No reason to get greedy.
  
• One month closer to January.
  
• To avoid unnecessary paper cuts opening presents during the holidays.
  
• The malls are too damn crowded.
  
• The economy is so bad, we can't afford December.
  
• The TV networks wanted to extend November sweeps one month, but marketing decided "December sweeps" didn't have a nice ring to it.
  
• The FBI learned of a terrorist attack being planned for December, so the administration canceled the month. "If there's no month of December, they can't attack in December."
  
• Was passed over for an Oscar again, so it decided to take some time off to find itself.
  
• December decided to vote against the U.S. bombing Iraq, so the U.S. had it eliminated. Claimed December went to an Al Qaeda training camp.
  
• December had a secret crush on May. May really loved June. December found out, and ran away to cry.
  

Wasn't that special?

US Army working on three year sandwich.


Kinda odd. Twinkies have a shelf life of what, 30 years or so, and yet the army's developing a sandwich that lasts three? I think they're setting their sites too low.

I'm such a slacker. I've been trying to get a Web page up for God knows how long, but have never gotten around to it. I still haven't quite figured out exactly how I'd like it to look, but this will have to do for a while.

I did go outside today, but all I got was wet. I spend my time working at a friendly little retail establishment and finding whatever freelance writing or editing work I can grab. I am a Dot-Com refugee and corporate leftover; I worked at a site that maybe five people visited and an interactive ad agency that had a growth spurt but dissolved faster than you can say, "Well, let me at least get my MP3 collection from the computer. No? OK."

It was interesting while it lasted.

It's Tuesday. It's raining and it's cold. A Fed-Ex truck blew up. I think I'm just gonna stay inside today.